Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

Word by word reading lead to the development of another bad habit which is the habit of reading aloud.

Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
The beauty of the Japanese landscape is that it conveys philosophical messages through each feature. The use of curving pathways rather than straight lines, for instance. This feature springs from the belief that only evil travels in straight lines, good forces tend to wander. Then, odd numbers of plants and trees are used in these gardens because these numbers are considered auspicious. Even the plants used are symbolic. For example, the Cyprus represents longevity and the bamboo symbolises abundance,’ says Sadhana Roy Choudhary.
The Japan, nature is said to be so closely intertwined with human life that parents actually plant a sapling in their garden when a child is born in the family, letting the growth of the child coincide with the growth of the plants.

They prefer curving pathways because ____

Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.

Flout

Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

I courteously asked her where was she going but she did not reply.

Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.

A snake in the grass

Directions: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If a sentence is free from errors, then your answer is (4) i.e., No error. 

 If you had told me(1) / I would have helped you (2) / solve the problem. (3)/ No error (4)  

Direction : Which of the following phrases (i), (ii), and (iii) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (E) i.e., "No correction required" as the answer.

The strategy of human lockdown is being unprecedented in human history and the World Health Organisation has called it the most “aggressive disease containment effort in history”.
i. Was unprecedented in human history.
ii. Was unprecedented during human history.
iii. Was unprecedented in the history of human beings.

Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.

Mastery